Moscow’s international economic cooperation envoy made overtures to American business ahead of a phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday.
His openness, however, was counterbalanced by a warning from Putin that the Kremlin would not allow firms that left Russia after the outbreak of war to simply slip back into the Russian market.
Kirill Dmitriev, who is also CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), floated the idea of allowing the United States, under a future economic deal, to jointly explore Russia’s large rare earth metal deposits.
The Russian envoy also held the door open for cooperation with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to aid the Kremlin’s space program….